Learn about Photo Effects

Enhance your images with these photo effects. Whether you want to download ready-made photo effects or create your own in Photoshop, we've got you covered.

All Photo Effects content:

  1. Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements - Part I

    Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements - Part I

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if you're not very good at drawing, you can still create a quality piece. All...

  2. How to Make a Melting Camera Scene

    How to Make a Melting Camera Scene

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we'll use the Layer Mask Tool and Liquify filter to "melt" the camera. I recommend you work with a tablet for this one (it makes your work...

  3. How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation

    How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to incorporate glass into your work. We'll learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo...

  4. Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

    Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial I will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. I'll also show you...

  5. How To Create a Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures

    How To Create a Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial I will give you some tips on how to take your own photos for the photo manipulation. You will learn, how to blend pictures, apply textures,...

  6. Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

    Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as...

  7. How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet

    How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it's not HDR processing, it's pen tablet magic. Find...

  8. How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

    How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial I will show you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called "You Can Not Frost The Time" with using several Photoshop tools such as...

  9. Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop

    Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we're going to look at one...

  10. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop - Screencast

    How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop - Screencast

    Tutorial Intermediate

    "In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes...

  11. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

    How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial we will explain how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and...

  12. How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

    How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In...